THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul

The symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as
befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors,
and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes.
Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab
airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of
Communism's pretentions to world dominion.

Never before in history, except possibly at the court of Genghis Khan at
Karakorum, has there been such a coming & going of representatives of
races from all the...